Gender Stereotypes

 New Zealand Men are perceived as a pioneer type

During the colonial period, men were perceived as rural, strong, emotionless, democratic, good with animals and machines that shared similarities with the stereotypical American frontier and the Australian Bushman. Today, many New Zealand men have these qualities, although most New Zealanders have lived in urban areas since the late 1800s.


New Zealand women are independent

Often, New Zealand women are perceived as more independent than women from other parts of the world. One of the supports of this stereotype is that New Zealand was the first country in the world to allow women to vote and the only one to have all its most important positions of state filed by women simultaneously. 





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